May 13
People have often asked me how do I know I’m in photofocus? `In the seminar I teach how to see the blip page. That is one of the ways to know you are in photofocus. However most people find it challenging and try too hard to get the blip page. They won’t trust the rest [...] [...more]
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People have often asked me how do I know I’m in photofocus? `In the seminar I teach how to see the blip page. That is one of the ways to know you are in photofocus. However most people find it challenging and try too hard to get the blip page. They won’t trust the rest of the system until they get this right.
Hey you don’t need to see blip page. The imaginary X-technique works just as well and if you have vision in only one eye you won’t ever see the blip page. That doesn’t stop you from being a successful PhotoReader.
So how do I know when I’m in photofocus? As I’ve taught in my classes and explained on the forum to me it feels exactly like I’m day dreaming. I’m looking without looking through whatever is in front of me into space. Looking beyond. PhotoReading to me has always felt the same as daydreaming.
Of course daydreaming has always been associated with switching off. So I think many of my students were reluctant to try this. How can the mind take anything in while one is daydreaming. How do I know it’s being processed? How when daydreaming is switching off, lazy, non-functioning aspect of brain activity?
Well exciting news! What we’ve been taught as a truth has been proven wrong with fMRI. Daydreaming is active activity. It switches on the brains problem solving functions.
“Prof. Kalina Christoff, UBC Dept. of Psychology. "But this study shows our brains are very active when we daydream – much more active than when we focus on routine tasks."
…The study finds that the brain’s "executive network" – associated with high-level, complex problem-solving and including the lateral PFC and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex – also becomes activated when we daydream.
This is a surprising finding, that these two brain networks are activated in parallel," says Christoff. "Until now, scientists have thought they operated on an either-or basis – when one was activated, the other was thought to be dormant." The less subjects were aware that their mind was wandering, the more both networks were activated.
This for me is the most exciting evidence that we do gain something from the PhotoReading step. A step that to me always felt like I was switching on daydreaming. Now I know I’m switching on the brains problem solving network.
So if you want to get into photofocus, daydream. Because big stuff is happening while you daydream.
Source: University of British Columbia (2009, May 12). Brain’s Problem-solving Function At Work When We Daydream. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 13, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2009/05/090511180702.htm
© AlexK Viefhaus
May 05
If you’ve subscribed to the RSS feed you won’t have received notice of updates to my blog. Thanks to Google I was not able to retrieve my feeds. I didn’t even know they were gone.
It explains why I wasn’t able to access a few feeds either.Getting page errors when I attempted to subscribe.
AlexK
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If you’ve subscribed to the RSS feed you won’t have received notice of updates to my blog. Thanks to Google I was not able to retrieve my feeds. I didn’t even know they were gone.
It explains why I wasn’t able to access a few feeds either.Getting page errors when I attempted to subscribe.
AlexK
May 01
And you think you’re focusing on what you want?
But it’s not showing up is it?
When I ask people what their goal is they often tell me something like, I want to eat healthy food, I want to exercise every day, I want to call more people in my job. I want to master [...] [...more]
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And you think you’re focusing on what you want?
But it’s not showing up is it?
When I ask people what their goal is they often tell me something like, I want to eat healthy food, I want to exercise every day, I want to call more people in my job. I want to master PhotoReading.
If they really wanted that they’d have it. Each of those wants require nothing out of the ordinary. They can be reasonably done but…..
But - is the problem. Have you ever noticed the "but" cancels out everything before it? I think you’d be great for the job, but … and whatever follows equals not getting it. I’d love to go out with you, but… yes, again whatever follows means you’re not going out. I want to learn PhotoReading but…
So taking it back to the topic of the article, you think you’re focusing on something, but you’re not getting it?
That often means there is a but, butting in that you haven’t addressed.
For example I want to eat healthy food but, I don’t want to because… . I want to go to the gym three times a week but, I don’t want to because,… I want to call more people but, I don’t want to because,… I want to learn PhotoReading but I’m afraid I won’t get it.
The problem with thinking you want something that isn’t showing up or isn’t the behaviour or action you want to demonstrate is that it keeps you stuck in wanting loop. Wanting something is part of an often unspoken but. You need to let go of wanting and start working toward having.
If you use tools like Paraliminals or subliminals or hypnosis and remain stuck because in the process you often surrender to what the unconscious but… The non-conscious mind has perfected the skill of fulfilling your command. When you consciously want something the non-conscious mind follows the but You don’t need to say it. Just the fact that you are giving voice to wanting something you are implying a but I… And with the ecology check now running, checking your programs, non-conscious servant following the I want healthy food but I don’t like the inconvenience of preparing healthy food. I want to go to the gym but I don’t want the inconvenience and discomfort associated with going to the gym. I want to call more people to make more sales but I don’t want the inconvenience and discomfort of making those calls. I want to learn PhotoReading but I don’t want to take time to learn it.
So you get more of the same. You might even seem to go backwards in a big way when you use tools. You’re stuck in a loop like a broken record.
So with this information you might look more closely and have an ah-ha. I want to eat healthy foods but I enjoy junk food. So adjust the want. I want to "enjoy" healthy food more. Now you think you’ve nailed it. Sorry the but is still butting in. The truth is you might want to enjoy healthy food more but you don’t..
You want to get away from wanting. Make your goal your aspiration, your intention. But watch out for those buts. They can still be butting in. I aspire to or intent to discover the taste for healthy foods that I enjoy more than the junk I eat now. A certain clear goal. Is it perfect? No, if you want it, no.
If you desperately want something the but is butting in. If you intend to have something in your life you have to quit wanting it. Let go of wanting it and just expect to have it and be prepared to let go of what comes after but, as well
© AlexK Viefhaus 2009
So how do I know when I’m in photofocus? As I’ve taught in my classes and explained on the forum to me it feels exactly like I’m day dreaming. I’m looking without looking through whatever is in front of me into space. Looking beyond. PhotoReading to me has always felt the same as daydreaming. 